Bu kısa çalışma, Fatih Ermiş’in A History of Ottoman Economic Thought: Developments Before the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2013) isimli kitabının METU’den (Kuzey Kıbrıs Kampüsü) Deniz T. Kılınçoğlu tarafından yapılan bir değerlendirmesidir. Osmanlı iktisadi düşüncesi...

<i>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</i> by Thomas Piketty provides a unified theory of the functioning of the capitalist economy by linking theories of economic growth and functional and personal income distributions. It argues, based on the long-run historical data series, that the forces of...

In this essay, I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, <em>Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius</em>. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how...

The essay examines various aspects of the teaching of public finance in the Italian universities during the period of thirty years 1915-1945: the academic staff; the chair competitions; the main textbooks; the main theoretical contributions of public finance scholars.

This paper provides a bird-eye overview of the history of spatial economic theory. It is organized around three main ideas (and authors): (i) land use and urban economics (Thünen), (ii) the nature of competition across space (Hotelling), and (iii) new economic geography and the emergence of...

Though men of letters have a strong impact on public opinion and articulate strong judgments on their economic environment, economic evaluations of those reflections are rather rare. This article analyses the essays of Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It is shown that one cannot distinguish between...

Maliye’ye eleştirel bir yaklaşım olan mali sosyolojiyi üzerine olan bu çalışma, bir disiplin olarak maliyenin ortaya çıkışındaki Kıt’a Avrupa’sı ve Anglo­ Sakson gelenekler arasındaki farklılığı temel hareket noktası olarak ele alır. Ortaya çıkış sürecindeki bu...

Facts, theories, and policies can be considered as the vertices of a triangle. While many contributions explore along the edges of such triangle, between couples of poles, we claim that the history of economics thought is fundamentally interested in looking within the whole area of the triangle....